SFWeekly.com | therumpus.net It's unclear at whose behest Oscar Villalon left as publisher of McSweeney's. The former San Francisco Chronicle book editor only began working for Dave Eggers' operation back in September of last year after taking a Chronicle buyout. || Read a Dec. 2009 interview with Villalon.

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From 1999 to 2011, Jim Romenesko maintained the Romenesko page for the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based non-profit school for journalists. Poynter hired him in August of 1999, after seeing his MediaGossip.com, a hobby site he started in May of 1999.